This is actually real. Story of the Killdozer
June 4, 2004
When Marvin Heemeyer of Granby, Colorado, reached a dead-end in his fight with the local zoning commission, the logical response would have been to petition them once again and await a future reply from them. After all, Marvin Heemeyer was known to have been a logical man, so it was expected that he would have taken a logical approach.
Instead, Marvin Heemeyer went home, outfitted his Komatsu D355A bulldozer with armored plates, a layer of concrete, and bulletproof plastic, and drove it through the town in a rampage, knocking down 13 buildings and causing $7 million worth of damage with his makeshift “killdozer.”
According to the city, he was an asshole. According to other people, the city was being bribed by the construction company (or whatever it was) to basically strongarm him out of his property. And with all the knowledge I have about corporate america, especially in times where the exact same thing happens for datacenters, I’m in no position to certainly say that that’s a lie.